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A poll to see how linguistic people in here really are.
Pick the amount of foreign languages you muster and understand (you don't have to be fluent in it)
Don't include your native-language!
Angryminer
01-12-2006, 18:15
Why not the native language?
Angryminer
Jurassic Parker
01-12-2006, 18:17
1. English.
I have Latin at school, too, but I'm so bad that I wouldn't say that i can sepak it.
@Angryminer: Because it seems unneccesary
Talarurus
01-12-2006, 18:20
I can speak English and Frensh, but not so well. :scratch:
Angryminer
01-12-2006, 18:23
I posted the question while you were still making your poll. I thought you were going to ask for each language to see which language is understood how much on the forum. So the question doesn't matter anymore.
My foreign languages are english and italian. Next semester I'll do a swedish course to make it three.
By the way, you forgot zero, for (some of) the english native speakers.
Angryminer
I posted the question while you were still making your poll. I thought you were going to ask for each language to see which language is understood how much on the forum. So the question doesn't matter anymore.
Hehe, okay.
Next semester I'll do a swedish course to make it three.
Good luck, and if you have any questions you can always ask :go:
By the way, you forgot zero, for (some of) the english native speakers.
Darn, I forgot about that. Is there some way a certain someone with particular powers could find the time to fix that? :angel:
My foreign languages are Russian and English.
I can speak Croatian and Bosnian and understand Bulgarian and Macedonian, but I'm not sure I can count those. :biggrin: I can speak English and some French.
Angryminer
01-12-2006, 19:27
I can speak Croatian and Bosnian and understand Bulgarian and Macedonian, but I'm not sure I can count those. :biggrin:I could also say that I understand swiss and can read dutch, but just because they are very similar to german.
(By the way I can't understand spoken dutch. I start laughing when I hear dutch and can't concentrate on what is being said. :wink: )
Angryminer
I wonder if languages which is very similar to the native language should count. :scratch:
Maybe only if they are extremely different from the native language?
(I.e [Swedish]: Norwegian and Danish. Personally I can't speak nor understand those two, but you get the picture :wink: )
People's Republic of China
01-12-2006, 20:10
some Spanish and Russian.
Learning Chinese. Understand bits and pieces of 5 others.
Odysseus
01-12-2006, 20:31
@Angryminer: Because it seems unneccesary
Are you sure? And if you've got an english father, and a french mother? Than you are bilingual, but both languages don't count :wink:
Are you sure? And if you've got an english father, and a french mother? Than you are bilingual, but both languages don't count :wink:
Good point Odysseus. Should we say that, if that's the case, then the foreign language should be the one you don't use as much, i.e you live in England?
Does that sound good? :wink:
//EDIT//
Do you honestly know 7 or more languages Odysseus? :eek:
(did you include your native languages English and French? :angel: )
Angryminer
01-12-2006, 20:49
Depends on what you wanted to know with the poll.
- Was the question "How many languages do you know?" Then all languages you know should count minus 1. (Then the minus 1 is just a random number that you have to add again to find out how many languages people know.)
- Or was the question "How many languages did you bother to learn?" Then a second mother language shouldn't count, because you knew that language from childhood on. In this case it's about how willing you have been to visit a language course and learn an otherwise unknown language.
Angryminer
Odysseus
01-12-2006, 21:00
No, I live in Italy, and I am an italian German... or a german Italian. I don't know :biggrin:
I also learned english, french and spanish, but for me it is more important to translate latin and ancient greek :angel:
EDIT:
Yes... sorry, I did that, before reading your post.
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But doesn't matter, I want to study one more language too, perhaps Hebrew, Arabic or Chinese.
I could also say that I understand swiss and can read dutch, but just because they are very similar to german.
(By the way I can't understand spoken dutch. I start laughing when I hear dutch and can't concentrate on what is being said. :wink: )
Angryminer
Well, Croatian and Bosnian aren't just very similar to Serbian, they are nearly the same...
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01-12-2006, 21:40
As waers thai!?:biggrin:
My mum can thai.But i learning thai!
Traveller
03-12-2006, 00:09
English - relatively well.
German - so-so (after 5 years of studying).
Serbian - can understand it, although not speak it well.
And I don't count Macedonian, since it's merely just a dialect of my native language. And if I have to list all the dialects... :rolleyes:
I am native speaker of Czech and Slovak. So I can't put neither of those, right?
Non-native languages of mine are:
English
French - basic communication
Hebrew - Basic communication
Arabic - starting to learn but surely will be forced to use...
so?
4? with one of my 2 native languages I could say 5...
I can understand Polish but cannot speak so I won't count it..
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